First and foremost a person should be intellectually honest with themselves when looking at the Torah and the Tanach. I say this for several reasons. The first reason is because the Torah, the one we have today, was not written by Moses. This is because the original Paleo-Hebrew Law “of” Moses was lost or destroyed […]
Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive Dissonance – John Byrne MD
Contents 1 What is Cognitive Dissonance? 2 Supporting the Theory 3 Cognitive Dissonance and the Self 4 Cognitive ‘Consonance’ 5 Dissonance Management, Science and Pseudoscience 6 Motivated Reasoning 7 “The Backfire Effect” 8 Cognitive Dissonance and Baby Steps 9 Examples 10 Conclusion 11 References and Links What is Cognitive Dissonance? How can a person hold two mutually contradictory beliefs at the same time? Psychologist Leon Festinger speculated in 1956 […]
Virtually All of the Stories in the Torah are Ahistorical
(Sarah Lazarovic) “Virtually all of the stories in the Torah are ahistorical,” declares a manifesto posted in July on TheTorah.com. “Given the data to which modern historians have access,” the essay explains, “it is impossible to regard the accounts of mass Exodus from Egypt, the wilderness experience or the coordinated, swift, and complete conquest of the entire land […]
Mind Parasites – John Kaminski*
————————————————————————————————- Your thoughts are not permitted Only pro-Jewish thoughts now allowed in public discourse [email protected] Hard choice: whether to eat or think? Bite your tongue or lose your job? Already they are demanding medical professionals receive toxic vaccinations in order to remain employed. <http://naturalsociety.com/22000-nurses-refuse-mandatory-vaccinations/> The same unethical blackmail is now shrinking the consciousness of humanity by […]
This is the website/blog of Philosopher Stephen Law*
Stephen Law This is the website/blog of Philosopher Stephen Law. Stephen is Reader in philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London, and editor of the Royal Institute of Philosophy journal THINK. He has published several books (see sidebar). For school talks and media email: think-AT-royalinstitutephilosophy.org Field Guide to Bullshit From New Scientist – interview by […]
Religious Lies Refuted – Let the Twilight of Religion Begin…
There is a huge amount of information on this person’s page – I cannot find a name to credit the person! If you find it please let me know! The last link: Total Essays and Studies that Refute Religion is a mine of information! RJ Please use this box to search this site Is it […]
Religious Lies Refuted – Let the Twilight of Religion Begin…
Please use this box below to search this site – Is it love to tell people that an all-good personal God exists? No, because it is to say that people should not be valued above all but he should for he is all-good and better than us and because all good including ours is […]
Coping Mechanisms
Explanations > Behaviors > Coping Mechanisms We are complex animals living complex lives in which we are not always able to cope with the difficulties that we face. As a result, we are subject to feelings of tension and stress, for example the cognitive dissonance and potential shame of doing something outside our values. To handle this […]
Doublethink
Explanations > Beliefs > Doublethink Description | Example | Discussion | So what? Description Doublethink was described by George Orwell as simultaneously holding two conflicting beliefs. Orwell describes it thus: “The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them….To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact […]
Emotion and Logic – Dr Jason Long
Since we can see that childhood indoctrination, threats of punishment, cultural isolation, biased argumentation, cognitive dissonance, low self-esteem, and low intelligence lead people to illogical conclusions about religion, the question should now become how to undo the effects of some of these phenomena. One of the primary findings of persuasive psychology is that, outside […]